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...World Health Organization (WHO) uses a similar on-the-ground surveillance strategy - a text-mining system of media reports, called the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), designed to suss out mentions of unusual illness. And the CDC has a network of physicians who routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might...
...bolster their findings, the authors cite a smaller 2002 study that arrived at similar results: in that paper, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Mark Zimmerman of Brown University and his colleagues found that of 315 patients with major depressive disorder who sought care, only 29, or 9.2%, met typical criteria for an efficacy trial. Similarly, psychologist Ronald Kessler of Harvard co-authored a 2003 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that concluded that most "real world" patients with major depression would be excluded from clinical trials because of comorbidities...
...related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials at the CDC. The CDC was actually already connected to the Veratect news feed (in January, Veratect provided the CDC complimentary access to its system to test its utility) when the company again...
...week or two before those of the CDC. "Each flu season for the past few years, we see a sharp uptick in flu-related queries at the beginning of flu season," says Google Flu Trends' Ginsberg. "One to two weeks later, the official reports come out and show a similar uptick. But because we are able to release estimates in near real time, we can get data out faster while still being accurate...
...mission. Recent weeks have seen a proliferation of labor protests at the College over staff layoffs, but student activists at the Law School expressed concern over their peers’ apparent lack of engagement with the issue, which they say poses a potential hurdle to mounting layoff protests similar to those at the College. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...